Recognize This ’60s Bombshell? She Now Stars on Game of Thrones

The Seven Kingdoms is known for serving up a delightful game of “Guess Who?” Next up: Lady Olenna, played by Diana Rigg. Over the past few seasons, we’ve come to revere the Tyrell matriarch for her political savvy, as well as her sharp-as-Valyrian-steel tongue. But before she was putting Westerosi lords in their place, the 77-year-old actress was playing another kind of heroine. In the 1960s, Rigg starred as a man-eating secret agent on the British series The Avengers, and went on to become James Bond’s only wife in 1969.

Rigg said that she took on the role in the Bond film to sex up her image and earn a name for herself in the States. Sadly, her American breakthrough would have to wait a few years: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service was one of the poorest-performing movies of the franchise. Rigg’s response to the film’s reception, however, would certainly make her GOT character proud: “At the end of all that pulchritude, there's me,” she has said. “And, let’s face it, I’m not exactly all teeth and tits, am I?”